Partners & funders
Back Africa's first AI-native generation.
40 KIDS is designed to satisfy two audiences at once. Grant committees fund the impact logic; investors fund the scale logic. Most initiatives choose one. With 40 KIDS, they're the same machine.
$16.5B
African AI market by 2030
Mastercard, 2025
230M
new digital jobs in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030
Mastercard, 2025
<5%
of young Africans trained in advanced digital skills
AU & UNESCO, 2025
The ask
A $3.2M blended catalytic round.
Combining philanthropic grant capital with catalytic and impact capital to fund an 18 to 24 month proof phase: build the platform in four languages, open 20 hubs across Ghana, employ 40 facilitators, and reach 10,000 children with published evidence of AI-literacy gains and a validated, declining cost-per-learner curve.
- Platform MVP live in four languages
- 20 hubs operational across Ghana
- 10,000 children reached, 40%+ girls
- 40 facilitators trained and employed
- Published pre/post AI-literacy gains
- A validated, declining cost-per-learner curve
Use of funds
- Platform build & language localisation35%
- Hub network: 20 hubs, fit-out, shared devices25%
- Facilitator recruitment, training & salaries18%
- Curriculum, content & certification design10%
- Monitoring, evaluation & data systems7%
- Operations, legal, safeguarding & contingency5%
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